Madame Bovary: it tells the story of a peasant girl Emma who has received a "good education" in a convent. She looks down on her husband who is a doctor in the town and has a powerful yearning for romance. However her adulterous affairs bring her no happiness but heavy debt. At last, her debt steadily mounts and she swallows arsenic in despair. With a seemingly indifferent attitude, Flaubert reveals objectively the causes and consequences leading to this tragedy, stating the responsibility that community can not shirk.